Shuttle gets serious with Pro Series, teases hexacore-ready SFF for June
By Vlad Savov 
posted April 7th 2010 11:52AM
posted April 7th 2010 11:52AM
Shuttle Now Shipping New "Pro Series" Small Form Factor Workstation PC Models With Six-Core Option Coming Soon
Shuttle refreshes its award-winning small form factor workstations with its new Pro Series line, offering dual-core, quad-core, and soon six-core processor options
City of Industry, CA -- April 5, 2010 / ( http://www.myprgenie.com ) -- Shuttle, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance small form factor (SFF) PC solutions and creator of the XPC, today officially rolled out its new Pro Series small form factor models designed specifically for professional and workstation use.
"Small, yet powerful, Shuttle's new Pro Series small form factor workstations are perfect for professional environments where space matters," said Nicolas Villalobos, Director at Shuttle Computer Group in Los Angeles. "In areas like healthcare and finance where size is important, power is needed, and additional expandability might not be necessary, the Pro Series really shines. Shuttle is still the smallest PC capable of handling standard desktop hardware -- and the fastest one, too."
Shuttle's new Pro Series small form factor workstation models, the J1 4100P and G2 7600P, feature dual-core and quad-core processor options from the Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo and Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad to the AMD Athlon(TM) II X2 and AMD Phenom(TM) II X4 and user choice of NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) FX or ATI FirePro(TM) professional 2D and 3D graphics cards. A third small form factor workstation model featuring the world's fastest six-core "Gulftown" processor, the Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 980X Extreme Edition, or an Intel(R) Xeon(R) is slated for release around June.
Shuttle workstation solutions are selected by the most power demanding professionals, including those in animation and graphics ( http://us.shuttle.com/Poweredbyshuttle_Animation_Graphics.aspx ), digital signage (http://us.shuttle.com/Poweredbyshuttle_DigitalSignage.aspx ), presentation and broadcasting (http://us.shuttle.com/Poweredbyshuttle_Presentation.aspx ), and working behind-the-scenes in TV and film (http://us.shuttle.com/poweredbyshuttle_TV_Film.aspx ).
Shuttle will begin shipping two new small form factor workstation models directly from its U.S. website ( http://us.shuttle.com ) today, starting at $899 MSRP. For more information about the new Shuttle Pro Series models, visit http://us.shuttle.com/Solutions_business.aspx .
Shuttle refreshes its award-winning small form factor workstations with its new Pro Series line, offering dual-core, quad-core, and soon six-core processor options
City of Industry, CA -- April 5, 2010 / ( http://www.myprgenie.com ) -- Shuttle, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance small form factor (SFF) PC solutions and creator of the XPC, today officially rolled out its new Pro Series small form factor models designed specifically for professional and workstation use.
"Small, yet powerful, Shuttle's new Pro Series small form factor workstations are perfect for professional environments where space matters," said Nicolas Villalobos, Director at Shuttle Computer Group in Los Angeles. "In areas like healthcare and finance where size is important, power is needed, and additional expandability might not be necessary, the Pro Series really shines. Shuttle is still the smallest PC capable of handling standard desktop hardware -- and the fastest one, too."
Shuttle's new Pro Series small form factor workstation models, the J1 4100P and G2 7600P, feature dual-core and quad-core processor options from the Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo and Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad to the AMD Athlon(TM) II X2 and AMD Phenom(TM) II X4 and user choice of NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) FX or ATI FirePro(TM) professional 2D and 3D graphics cards. A third small form factor workstation model featuring the world's fastest six-core "Gulftown" processor, the Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 980X Extreme Edition, or an Intel(R) Xeon(R) is slated for release around June.
Shuttle workstation solutions are selected by the most power demanding professionals, including those in animation and graphics ( http://us.shuttle.com/Poweredbyshuttle_Animation_Graphics.aspx ), digital signage (http://us.shuttle.com/Poweredbyshuttle_DigitalSignage.aspx ), presentation and broadcasting (http://us.shuttle.com/Poweredbyshuttle_Presentation.aspx ), and working behind-the-scenes in TV and film (http://us.shuttle.com/poweredbyshuttle_TV_Film.aspx ).
Shuttle will begin shipping two new small form factor workstation models directly from its U.S. website ( http://us.shuttle.com ) today, starting at $899 MSRP. For more information about the new Shuttle Pro Series models, visit http://us.shuttle.com/Solutions_business.aspx .
Hey you sexy thing ;)
I've loved Shuttle since they started, but that checker pattern is really hard to take seriously.
How loud are the fans on Shuttles these days? Had one a few years ago and it was really bad.
@fais The SN41G2 I used to have was a jet engine even when the fan wasn't ratcheted up to full speed. The socket 939 my employer bought years back was nearly silent. It would be nice if they were consistent...
@dingus
Quite Quiet
Wow a socket 1366 proc and a 5850...guess size really doesn't matter.
Question though, how would they power that, don't shuttles use micro-atx psu?
@thinkindependent I was thinking the same thing. A 500W PSU would be pushing it in multiple ways. Its probably about the most you could get out of a PSU that size, and it would barely power a high power CPU and GPU.
These might have room for a full size PSU though, in which case, nvm
@Sakiel i power my i5 with a 150W microPSU (picoPSU btw, this one http://www.short-circuit.com/product/picoPSU-150-XT.html). granted, i use the internal gpu, so more is needed for that. but full high end pcs work without much power nowadays.
@thinkindependent They have some pretty powerful pico PSUs nowadays, and the only ridiculous power hogs that remain are video cards, so you just have to avoid the really inefficient drag-racer bunch and you can still get far more performance than you could ever hope for from a laptop.
@Sakiel The Shuttle PSUs are pretty efficient, and can handle pretty high end CPUs (Core i7) and GPUs (GTX 285) -- plus the other standard components inside -- with the included power supply.
Any questions, you can check out the forums at http://us.shuttle.com/scgforum and ask away ;)
I always wanted to get a shuttle
Mess off, its called SEXACORE. Are you afraid, or something?
Cool.
I had a shuttle a long time ago and it looked exactly like the ones shown here.. Im surprised they haven't changed their case design. At all.
Gamecube lives!!
Hey! Looks like my PC at home! I bought it because it had a case that exact size and shape! Mine is black plastic though, and has a handle and LCD display on the front, two 5.25" drive bays and I filled my 3.5" bay with a card reader. I think I got it at NewEgg, wasn't too expensive...
These must be a little smaller though, given that.
On my second Shuttle SFF. Best university dorm desktop options ever.
The AMD unit is based on the barbone SA76G2 which as some flaws to use as a pro series. There are no eSATA ports and the graphics card is covering up the only PCI slot once installed. On top of that Shuttle has a BIOS issue on this model with Windows7 Aero. Once the system enters sleep mode and recovers back all Aero features are lost and windows acts like its working on a DirectX 8 graphics card.
Are Shuttle PC's any good? They seem to offer good bang for your buck, but are they reliable? Quiet?
Well I love the shuttle PCs, but the problem with their existing LGA1366 platform is that it only sports 4 RAM slots. While I see the space issue, it's a killer for me.
So it looks when I will be moving to LGA1366 it will not be a shuttle PC for me. Sniff.
A first for a long time.
M.